In 1583, 440 years before the Titan submersible imploded off the coast of Newfoundland, the frigate Squirrel was lost at sea, all hands presumed dead. The captain was Humphrey Gilbert, the man sometimes credited with founding Britain’s overseas empire by claiming Newfoundland as English territory. Like Titan pilot Stockton Rush, Gilbert earned himself a watery grave chasing a moonshot: he set off across the North Atlantic trying to find a shortcut to Cathay (what Europeans then called China) and died on the return.

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